I really just started looking at producers because I feel like they deserve as much credit as the artist, which I only realized recently after I took a GPA boosting “Music Appreciation” class and so far, you are my favorite producer. I love all of the music you produced for Chance the Rapper or Vic Mensa. I read all the annotations. You are a genius, keep up that great work. Also, if you need graphic design I would love to design for you if you need it. It started out as a hobby, but I want to make a career out of it and it’s fun to design for Twitter rappers and artists. Thanks for reading this, and sorry for the life story. e-mail — FlorioJakob1998@gmail.com

The phone call at the beginning of this song is real. Chance was in the studio writing the song and out of nowhere, his dad calls him to apologize about a laptop he was supposed to get him that he hadn’t gotten him yet. According to Chance, every time his dad calls him, he’ll often end up saying something very positive or sentimental to him during the conversation. So after answering his phone, Chance quickly rushed into the booth and put his iPhone up to the mic to record the conversation. A genius move, in my opinion. That’s where the intro “skit” came from. It was a very real and spontaneous occurrence. We threw it at the beginning of the track and that’s how it all came together.

And no, there are no samples in that beat. And the homie, Nico Segal from Kids These Days played the trumpet parts toward the end.

This beat is the result of a jam session between Chance, Vic Mensa, Peter Cottontale, and myself. Peter and I made the beat live while Chance and Vic sang us the chorus. This is actually a remake of a Very Rare, unreleased version of this track. Long story short, someone was crazy enough to deny Chance the permission to use the original beat the song was recorded on, so he brought me and Peter Cottontale together to start completely from scratch on a new beat and make something way hotter. After they laid their vocals, Chance hit up Twista and got him on the 3rd verse to make it official.

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As you may already notice, this song has nothing to do with orange soda, and here’s why: The name of this beat while I was working on it was “Orange Soda Pizza” cause that’s what was sitting next to me when I was making it. After recording the song, the ProTools session was named after the beat cause we didn’t have a title yet and so that was supposed to serve as the song’s working title until Vic came up with a final one. Eventually, he decided to keep the ‘Orange Soda’ and just drop the ‘Pizza’, thus giving the song its final title.

P.S. I layered the drums from Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend” with the drums from Mayer Hawthorne’s “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”. for those of you who aren’t crate-diggers, the original drum break is from an old soul record called “Get Out of My Life, Woman” by Lee Dorsey. It’s a classic break. Very well-known and widely used.